The London Stadium is set to host two of the most glamorous matches of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
The venue, which was used for the 2012 Olympics and is currently occupied by West Ham, is expected to stage the group matches between England and Australia and India and Pakistan, according to reports.
The London Stadium has a capacity of 60,000, meaning these games should comfortably break the record for the highest attendance at a cricket match in this country. The plan is for these fixtures to be staged on consecutive days or over the same weekend.
Tournament officials are happy the stadium could be adjusted to suit the needs of cricket.
Speaking in March, ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: “It has the right dimensions to play meaningful cricket and there are not a lot of other stadiums around the country that have got the capacity to fit the boundaries in. We will have to tweak the orientation of the ground slightly. There are minimum boundaries that we have to deliver.
“It would be an amazing statement to have 55,000 to 60,000 people in a ground in the UK watching World Cup cricket.”
In Pictures | West Ham's London Stadium
Meanwhile, the Duke of Edinburgh was due to open the new £25million Warner Stand at Lord’s today.
